A short talk at the Friends Meeting House, Court Road, PR9, to the Southport Transition Town group.

Four Corners 2009   22nd – 29th July
Four Corners at the Bluecoat is a week of FREE environmental events for all ages including hands on exhibitions, performances, films, advice, information, practical living workshops, family art activities and food.
As part of these events we are looking for someone who can be the Four Corners Doctor in residence, Dr Carbon

Who is Dr Carbon?
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Four Corners 2009   22nd – 29th July

Four Corners at the Bluecoat is a week of FREE environmental events for all ages including hands on exhibitions, performances, films, advice, information, practical living workshops, family art activities and food.

We are looking for experienced people to run practical living workshops as part of this week on Sat/ Sun July 26/27th Below is a shortlist of workshops that ideally we’d like to be able to run. We want to offer a range of hands on workshops that will appeal to all ages/gender. These workshops will take place in a temporary structure that will be situated in the courtyard of the Bluecoat. Workshops are for small groups of people and will change every
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In the past few weeks Àgata Alcañiz have been involved in 'A little patch of Ground' project at the Blue Coat arts centre, in Liverpool, as a Manchester Permaculture Network ambassador. In this project, she have been talking to an Inter-generational groups of residents from across Liverpool  about permaculture principles, diversity in growing food and communities, soil, companion plants while altogether the group has made their own planters to grow food in the nice patio in the centre of the Blue Coat.Read more

An after-work social café combining beer, conversation, and the jagged interface between technology, networks, and “saving the world”, kicked off by a five minute talk by sustainable technologist Richard Smedley. Running every Wednesday in Liverpool FACT's Gallery 1 at 6pm. Traditional agriculture is labour-intensive; modern agriculture is energy intensive (& unsustainable) - but permaculture is design & knowledge intensive, using natural systems that give abundance to provide for our material needs with local adaptation to micro-climate, people & landscape. “…Permaculturist’s propose asking questions the current culture leaves unasked: How much is enough? How hard should we work? What do we need? Want? How do we measure that?Read more